Sentences with phrase «electoral results from»

A lot of attention rightly has been given to this week's electoral results from Wisconsin — and to a lesser extent, San Diego and San Jose — which show some real hollowness in government union political strength.

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Find information on Canadian federal electoral history from 2006 - 2008, including 2006 general election results, changes in party leadership, and political party standing prior to 2008 general election.

Since the deal has resulted in extensive financial inequality, Christian justice counsels us to insulate the electoral process from the distortions that disparities in wealth can introduce.

Opposition leader Mr Raila Odinga, whose legal challenge to the election results led to the vote being nullified, withdrew from the new election, saying the process was not credible because of the lack of electoral reforms.

The point of gerrymandering is to achieve a massed result different from the massed popular vote, which is the same criticism leveled at the electoral collage.

I think added to that is the incapacity of the American domestic political system to address these problems: the inability to use the tax system to address budgetary concerns; to spend money on new infrastructure; and the stasis that results from the presidential electoral season.

Despite the uneven playing field and against the odds, regime change can result from electoral competition, even in today's Venezuela; as long as the opposition were to reset, rethink and restart its efforts.

In this article, Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, and Stafano M. Iacus (University of Milan and VOICES from the Blogs) find that supervised and aggregated sentiment analysis (SASA) applied in proportional electoral systems produces the most accurate forecasts of election results.

In 2015, attempts by the Chairperson to stop district electoral officers from inserting ghost names on the list of officials recruited for the 2015 district level elections, to enable them appropriate the allowances for the officials resulted in the Chairperson being reported to the BNI for investigation.

That is why the winners» camp would quake with savage growls over undelivered pork: who gets what in electoral war booty, after a thumping victory, resulting from spectacular electoral slaughter!

In this article, Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, and Stefano M. Iacus (University of Milan and VOICES from the Blogs) find that supervised and aggregated sentiment analysis (SASA) applied in proportional electoral systems produces the most accurate forecasts of election results.

Nevertheless, Ganesh skilfully presents the rise of a politician «fixated on the centre ground», whether that fixation results from principle or electoral calculation.

The electoral pendulum orders seats from the most marginal to safest based on results of the last election.

Surely the only realistic compromise would be a fully independent review of the electoral system (borrowing from the British Columbia experience), the result of which would automatically go to a referendum?

In this form, the plurality principle can be problematic and ambiguous given the disproportionality of the UK's first - past - the - post electoral system, as a result of which the party with the largest number of seats may be different from the party which wins most votes.

The exclusion of the left from the Labour Party would simply result in the emergence of a new party to the left of New Labour, with serious electoral support.

[41] Much of the apparent lack of success resulted from the first - past - the - post electoral system: the party got 22 % of the votes nationally but only 10 % of the seats in the Commons.

Curtice and Steven show that a switch from the d'Hondt to the Sainte - Laguë method of allocating list seats, a method that is already enshrined in other aspects of the UK's electoral arrangements, would have produced a more proportional result in which the SNP would not have won a majority despite winning well under 50 % of the vote.

Well, firstly, the results of the next election aren't written in stone, and there's always a chance - slim though it might be - the party somehow recover from their current electoral horror story.

So far, results from 28 polling units in the five councils were cancelled due to electoral improprieties, over-voting, malfunctioning card readers and violence.

According to the Collation Officer, Mr. Perekeme Bertola, a lecturer at the Niger Delta University, NDU, results from six polling units at Asamabiri were cancelled due to alleged malfunctioning card reader and electoral violence.

The result was a series of races where Democratic incumbents were able to drag themselves from the brink of electoral defeat by going negative early and often against their Republican opponents.

This chart shows the electoral results of the Welsh Liberals, and later Liberal Democrats, from its first election in 1900.

As a result of an electoral agreement with the Labour Party, [2] «Labour and Co-operative Party» candidates receive financial help with election expenses from the Co-operative Party, including funding parliamentary candidates.

We are attracted by the idea of coalitions between progressives, especially if they result in electoral reform, genuine reform of the House of Lords and of the City, legislation for fixed - term parliaments, stronger civil liberties, an enhanced Freedom of Information Act, closer ties with Europe, a multilateral foreign policy and withdrawal from Afghanistan.

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

Distinct from the process of electoral alliances in that the political parties remain separately listed on the ballot, the practice of electoral fusion in jurisdictions where it exists allows minor parties to influence election results and policy by offering to endorse or nominate a major party's candidate.

Instead of opinion polling, Norpoth relies on statistics from candidates» performances in party primaries and patterns in the electoral cycle to forecast results.

Once votes have been counted, the results from each polling unit will be uploaded to the electoral commission's website.

From the provision of basic security to voters at political party rallies and campaigns, to ensuring that result forms are protected, the whole electoral process is defined by security considerations, especially in view of the number of election personnel involved, election materials that need to be moved, difficulty of the terrain to be traversed as well as the polling locations that need to be protected.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

Meanwhile, results from other local government have been announced by the electoral umpire earlier today.

While a temporary backlash from environmentalists and much of the public resulted, Republicans nonetheless enjoyed a good deal of electoral success in arguing that «government is the problem, not the solution.»

The final results are in from last night's two electoral items related to the courts and both were fairly dramatic in their win / loss ratios.

In B.C., we await the result of a provincial government mandated citizen's forum on electoral reform, which is expected to recommend a change from the current voting system.